Vengeance in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: emotion, religion, and feud
By: Susanna A. Throop and Paul R. Hyams.
Contributors: Hyams, Paul R.
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780754664215
Subjects: Revenge; Revenge -- Religious aspects; Europe -- History
Description: Incorporating tools borrowed from anthropology, the study of emotion, and modern social and literary theories, these studies balance the traditional literature available on medieval feuding with an exploration of other aspects of vengeance and culture in the Middle Ages. Aimed at scholars and graduate students within the broad field of medieval studies, incorporating the subfields of history, literature, and religious studies, this collection will also prove interesting to non-medievalists interested in the history of emotion, the justification of human conflict etc.
Table of contents: title: "Vengeance is mine" : saintly retribution in Medieval Ireland / Máire Johnson; title: The "fyre of Ire kyndild" in the fifteenth-century Scottish marches / Jackson W. Armstrong; title: Living in fear of revenge : religious minorities and the right to bear arms in fifteenth-century Portugal / François Soyer; title: Chivalric feud in tenth-century France / Dominique Barthélemy; title: The way vengeance comes : rancorous deeds and words in the world of Orderic Vitalis / Thomas Roche; title: Verbal and physical violence in the historie of Aurelio and Isabell / Marina Brownlee; title: Was there really such a thing as feud in the high Middle Ages? / Paul R. Hyams; title: Zeal, anger, and vengeance : the emotional rhetoric of crusading / Susanna A. Throop; title: Afterword : neither unnatural nor wholly negative : the future of medieval vengeance / Paul R. Hyams.